The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically
Paula J. Massood and Erica Stein
Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.
urban theory
Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film
Yoon Jeong Oh
Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun's critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.
Doubly Displacing Media and the City
Scott Rodgers
In this concluding response, Scott Rodgers explores the roundtable's apparent consensus that the intersection of media and the urban should be approached by counter-intuitively displacing both of these key concepts.
Researching the Urban as a Human Endeavour
Giorgia Aiello
In this fourth roundtable response, Giorgia Aiello suggests that media theory offers a distinctive understanding of the nature and potential of the urban as a human endeavour.
Decentring the Urban
André Jansson
In this response, Andre Jansson argues that we must look beyond the confines of urban centres and incorporate the voices and lived experiences of those who do not fit our urban-centric cultures of connectivity.
Theorizing Media after the Urban Revolution
Scott Rodgers
In the final opening essay, Scott Rodgers argues that conceiving of the urban as processual, amorphous, relational and unbounded provokes a critical rethinking around why, where and how we study urbanized media.
Mediatization and Urban Struggle
André Jansson
In the second essay, André Jansson connects the ambiguity of “the urban” with that of “mediatization,” considering their relationships through the example of urban exploration.
Back to the City
Zlatan Krajina
In the first essay, Zlatan Krajina suggests media studies returns to its roots in the city, to rekindle its early, less disciplinary, instincts.
The Urban as Emergent Key Concept for Media Theory: An Introduction
Scott Rodgers
In this roundtable introduction , guest editor Scott Rodgers introduces the main thematic issues and questions to be addressed.